The Sweet Little Fulang

Money makes people motivated, and compared with the joy of earning money, the crowds at the market don't seem so scary.After the first payment, Lu Gu's shouting voice no longer trembled, at least he dared to talk to the woman and her husband when they passed by.

"Ma'am, look at the wolfberries, they're all good."

Shen Xuanqing was selling prey at the side. Seeing that he dared to speak out while he was busy, he was relieved and joyful in his heart, and the smile on his face became obvious. Lu Gu was timid but not too cowardly. He knew how to do what he had to do. will get better and better.

The gray-haired and elderly woman was carrying a basket, and she really leaned forward to look at it. She asked, "How much?"

Lu Gu quickly said, "Sanwen."

"It's more expensive, it's cheaper." Some people are used to saying that things are expensive at the beginning, and then they can lower the price later. This is exactly the case for the old woman. No matter what she buys, she has to negotiate the price. Take advantage of.

Although Shen Xuanqing told him that Sanwen was the market price, and the goji berries he picked were big and good, which was already cheap, but Lu Gu had never done a small business before, and he was a little uncertain without help, so he had to turn to look at Shen Xuanqing .

"Auntie, it's not expensive anymore. It's cheaper than our little ones, which sell for three or four pennies." Seeing him timidly looking over, Shen Xuanqing felt like being scratched in her heart, and opened her mouth without thinking.

Lu Gu was extremely grateful, because there was such a "reassurance" standing beside him, he also imitated a sentence: "Ma'am, it's not expensive anymore."

The old woman often buys things, so she knows the market price, and after picking things for a while, she sees that the price can't be lowered, so she asks her to weigh them for six cents.

Lu Gu hurriedly took out the nickname, he recognized it, and Wei Lanxiang taught him the nickname after borrowing it back last night.

He got another six copper coins, and when Lu Gu put the money into the cloth bag, he heard the crash of the copper coins colliding, even though the money would be given to Shen Xuanqing later, but just listening to it made people happy, and he even smiled.

After this time, if someone lowers the price when buying goji berries, Lu Gu will follow Shen Xuanqing's words and don't need help.

Compared with Shen Xuanqing's income, he has small money here. When there is no one around, he will watch Shen Xuanqing sell prey and do a favor or something.

Today is a good day, the sun is getting bigger and hotter.Because there are quite a lot of wild animals in a pallet, there are still a few that have not been sold out.

Shen Xuanqing felt hot, saw that the water in the bamboo tube had been drunk, and was hungry in the middle of the morning, so she asked Lu Gu to watch, and went to buy food nearby.

The busiest and noisy time of the morning market is over. There are not many people buying in the market, and many hawkers who have finished the morning market have left.

Seeing that no one came to ask, Lu Gu just sat on the bench to rest. He has been standing almost all the time, and now he has time to sit down.

He searched among the few people with his eyes, and soon found Shen Xuanqing's figure, after all, such a tall man was quite rare.

Not long after, Shen Xuanqing came back with two bowls of noodles, and said casually: "This Yangchun noodles are good, I have eaten them twice."

Lu Gu took a bowl. He had heard that a bowl of this noodle cost ten cents. Lu Wen often ate it when he was in school in the town. After returning to Anjia Village, he sometimes talked to Du Hehua about wanting to eat Yangchun noodles. Du Hehua said Ten Wen, where can I buy it for him.

The two sat on stools and put the bowl on the cart as a table.

The noodles are thin and white, sprinkled with emerald green scallions, and the clear soup is embellished with soy sauce and oil flowers and is bright yellow. It looks greedy, but the noodles are smooth and chewy. The soup is light but delicious. You can even finish the soup in one bowl. You are satisfied and comfortable, and you feel that it is worth ten cents.

And when Shen Xuanqing returned the bowl, she also made a bamboo tube of green plum brew.This wine has a very light brewing flavor and tastes sweet and sour. It is often drunk by women and Shuang'er.

Lu Gu originally thought that he brought the bamboo tube to ask for water, but he didn't expect that when the lid of the bamboo tube was opened, he could smell such a sweet and sour taste.

"Drink." Just as Shen Xuanqing finished speaking, someone came over and asked how to sell the pheasant.

Lu Gu held the bamboo tube and carefully tasted it. The taste was sour and then sweet, and there was a slight taste of wine. This taste was strange to him. After two sips, he felt that it was delicious, and his eyes seemed to be brighter. .

After Shen Xuanqing sold two pheasants, she turned her head and saw his joyful expression, and she was also happy in her heart.

The sun was getting higher and higher, so that people's eyes were hard to open.

There were only two white-necked pheasants and the black-hoofed sheep that was still alive on the cart. Shen Xuanqing took another look at the goji berries in the bamboo basket. It was halfway down, but there were not many wild bath beads left. Many, three bundles of solid mugwort leaves were also sold.

"Go to the medical clinic to see if they accept wolfberries, and then go to the pork shop and sell the sheep and you can go back." He said, tidy up the cart, put the benches on it, and don't need Lu Gu for the bamboo baskets. Back it up, put it on the cart and push it away.

After leaving the market, they handed over the wooden sign, and the two of them walked towards the east of the town, and they arrived at the medical clinic first. The people in the medical clinic looked at the quality of the goji berries, tasted them, and accepted them all at the market price of three yuan and one tael. Well, at the end when the two of them were leaving, the man also said that if there is any more such goods, just come over, and they will accept as much as they want.

This undoubtedly surprised Lu Gu. Few people went to the deep mountains and forests. He was the only one who picked those wild goji berries by himself. He never thought that he would be lucky.

Because it was dry goods, and he picked and dried them by himself, there were many goji berries in the mountains, but not everywhere. The rest in the bamboo basket weighed ten catties and sold for 480 Wen.

There were too many copper coins and it was not easy to take them, so Shen Xuanqing asked the staff to weigh five coins and returned them to the medical center for twenty coins, and the five coins went into Lu Gu's hands.

Not to mention the copper plates in the cloth bag, Lu Gu held the broken silver tightly, his feet were a little erratic, and he stared at Shen Xuanqing in a daze when he left the hospital.

"What are you doing in a daze, don't pretend yet." Shen Xuanqing said with a smile.

Lu Gu just woke up like a dream, and put the broken silver into his sleeves, so that even the inner pockets of his sleeves seemed to become precious and heavy.

The pork shop was on another street. Shen Xuanqing met a butcher surnamed Zhao, and they finally agreed that the butcher Zhao would give Shen Xuanqing five taels of silver, and Shen Xuanqing would take away the slaughtered sheepskin and a hind leg.

Compared with pork and chicken, mutton that is nourishing and can be stewed with medicinal materials is more expensive. When the price of pork is [-] yuan per catty, mutton can be sold for [-] yuan when it is cheap, but sheep are not as fat and big as pigs, and the meat is produced Naturally, there were not as many pigs, and this black-hoofed sheep was a small sheep, so five taels of silver was considered fair, and Butcher Zhao made money himself.

The two of them had always been on good terms with each other, so they made a plan, boiled a large pot of water, sharpened their knives and slaughtered them in the courtyard.

Shen Xuanqing is a hunter and knows how to skin skin. It is not difficult for him to kill pigs and sheep, and he wants sheep skin, so he handles the knife.

Lu Gu and Mrs. Zhao's daughter-in-law, Ji Shi, were sitting in the shop in front. Ji Shi was holding their one-year-old fat boy. some drool.

Ji's body is slightly plump, she loves to talk and laugh, the child won't let her sit, she has to stand up and move around, she gossips with Lu Gu, it's mostly about their little tiger, and she also complains about the difficulty of raising children work hard.

Listening to what she said, Lu Gu responded in a low voice from time to time, his eyes fell on the fat face of the little tiger, and the little tiger giggled at him, and he couldn't help laughing too.

Seeing wild bath beads in the bamboo basket on the ground next to the chair, Ji asked, "Did you buy these wild bath beads to use back, or to sell?"

Working in a butcher shop, it is inevitable that you will get greasy and greasy hands, so you have to wash your hands frequently. Although Zhao Butcher’s family is rich and can afford the fragrant bath beans in the powder shop, it feels like a waste if you use these to wash your hands. Things, often buy some wild bath beads back.

Knowing that it was for sale, she wanted to buy it. It was bigger than the ones she bought earlier, and she could scrub and wash it in her hands many times if she wanted one.

Lu Gu saw that there were only a dozen or so wild bath beads left, and he was familiar with Shen Xuanqing talking to Butcher Zhao just now, he thought for a while and said, "Sister-in-law, just take it, you don't need to give me money."

"Hey, how do you put it that way, it's not easy for you to pick it." Ji shrugged with a smile.

Lu Gu said again: "There are only a few left, it's nothing."

These ten or so were sold for three or four pennies. He has already sold a lot of copper coins today. Not to mention the Ji family, even if he goes back to the village and asks him for it, he will give it to him. This thing is picked in the mountains, and it doesn't cost much. It doesn't matter how much money you have.

"If that's the case, then I'll accept your kindness. If you come to the town later, come and have a sit if you have nothing to do." The smile on Ji's chubby face widened, and he helped Lu Gu refill the tea.

The two chatted and laughed for a while, and teased the little tiger. After a while, because someone came to buy meat, Lu Gu gave Ji a hug for the child. The little tiger was heavy, and after being held by him, his fat little hands were still stretched out. Pointing at Ji Shi who was cutting the flesh, he was whimpering, as if talking to him.

Five or six years ago, Du Hehua gave birth to Lu Wu. Lu Gu was about 12 years old at the time. Every time he ate, Du Hehua asked him to hug Lu Wu. He doesn't eat well, so it's no stranger to him to hold a baby.

But for Shen Xuanqing, she had never seen it before, her eyes paused slightly, and her expression seemed strange.

Butcher Zhao came in from the yard with him, and went to weigh the meat for Mrs. Ji.After the work was done, the Ji family took the children from Lu Gu, and Shen Xuanqing said goodbye to them. When she left, she originally wanted to buy a piece of meat, so she could pay back the half that she borrowed from the villager yesterday, and she could still eat some at home. , But Zhao Butcher confiscated the money.

After going out, Shen Xuanqing pushed the empty trolley much more easily. On it was a diabolo basket and sheepskin leg of lamb. The leg of lamb was wrapped in sheepskin so that it was not exposed. When I got home, I stewed it with nourishing herbs.

It was noon and the sun was very bright. Fortunately, it was autumn and it was not so hot.Lu Gu was thinking about the money he sold today, maybe after he went back and paid the money, Shen Xuanqing could give him ten coins.

But even if he didn't give it, he had nothing to complain about. He ate well and slept well at the Shen's house. Today Shen Xuanqing even made green plum wine for him to drink, so that was enough.

The two of them walked out of the town, and there were some people around an alley in front of them. It looked like they were joining in the fun, and they could vaguely hear crying and a few curses inside.When we get closer, we can piece together a rough idea from the gossip of those people.

It turned out that there was a maid in the alley who was about to sell and bought by the Zhang family. She said her hands and feet were not clean and her teeth were in the courtyard. The maid had an affair with the eldest son of the Zhang family who had died of his daughter-in-law. If she wanted to be his wife, Mrs. Zhang would sell her out.

It is impossible to know exactly what happened, but Lu Gu was a little surprised, it turned out that after buying someone, it can be sold again.He has been staying in Anjia Village, and he has never been to the town a few times. He has only heard that there are people in the countryside who sell their sons and daughters. As for what happens after the sale, he doesn't know.

Looking at Shen Xuanqing again, there was a bit of fear in his eyes.